I'm gradually learning a few of our British birds by spotting them out walking the dog, trying to remember what they look like and then looking them up when I get back home. I saw a pair of goldfinches today, which was a nice spot for me as I knew what they were already and didn't have to ge the book out!
I see a lot of tits about (steady!) and still can't distinguish between some of them yet. Saw a grey one a while back which turned out to be a coal tit, something I'd not seen before.
We seem to have a proliferation of robins at the moment and I usually see 2 or 3 every walk. My house has steps up to the front door with handrails and as I got my bike out to ride to work the other morning there were 2 sitting on either side staring one another out. Oh to have had a decent camera in my hand at that moment!
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lot of house martins round here in the summer, which the dog likes to chase, as they fly low to the ground. Got a feeling there might not be so many this year, though, as I think they used to live in an old farm building nearby, which they've now torn down.